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An expert witness learned a hard lesson about AI in the courtroom this week, after relying on artificial intelligence tools to support testimony that ultimately backfired during trial. The witness acknowledged the systems carry biases, a reminder that AI can sound authoritative while quietly misleading even experienced professionals.
On the hardware front, OpenAI has been pulling back the curtain on Jalapeño, its inference chip that made waves at Hot Chips in August of two thousand twenty six. The company's VP of hardware Richard Ho revealed the design leaned heavily on AI tooling to hit an unusually compressed development window, raising real questions about how much of chip design humans will own going forward.
And in developer tooling, a project called Pixi is making a quiet case for itself as a cross-platform, cross-language package manager. Managing dependencies across different languages and operating systems has long been one of software development's more unglamorous headaches, and Pixi is positioning itself as a single tool that can smooth out those rough edges.
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